King David playing the lyre in a scene from a 15th-century manuscript of the Book of Psalms. Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images The earliest musical ...

At 28 years old, musician Matthew Smith is not following the latest trends in popular music. Instead, his style of music is from the old school - the really old school. At first listen, Smith's music ...

Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...

A reader sent me an e-mail recently, asking why when I write about the history of songs and hymns, I use only the old ones. “Don’t you like any of the worship songs?” she asked. “Are you one of those ...

Religion-and-alcohol groups are popping up across the United States In Nashville%2C a group meets once quarterly and sing hymns in a bar Beer and Hymn Sing is attracting a growing number of people of ...

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Thanksgiving doesn’t ring in the ear for months on end, unlike another holiday that lies just ahead. Yet readers may remember a couple of hymns that roll around each November in church, around the ...